1 sheet, folded (4 unnumbered pages) ; 26 cm +

Letter to "Lord Aberdeen" (John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon) thanking him for his praise of the wireless telegram and for an invitation to visit him in Dublin, and mentioning Marconi's efforts to get the British Post Office to label wireless telegrams from North America with the place of origin rather than by the receiving station

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Autograph letter signed, handwritten in black ink on unlined paper with the printed letterhead of the Marconi Transatlantic Station, Clifden, Galway, Ireland. Accompanied by 3 supplementary materials: 1 black and white halftone print (1 sheet) of a photographic portrait of Marconi with his signature, with a newspaper clipping dated December 13, 1951, attached to the verso; 1 printed business card (1 sheet) reading "Chev. Guglielmo Marconi, Officier de la Couronne d'Italie"; and 1 autograph (1 sheet) in black ink on white cardboard

Guglielmo Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer, known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission, development of Marconi's law, and a radio telegraph system

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